Cybersecurity Insights and Resources for Rural Hospitals

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Cyberthreats such as ransomware attacks are threat-to-life crimes. While escalating cyberattacks underscores the critical need for your hospital or health system to defend against malicious actors, you cannot do it alone. This is especially true for rural hospitals with limited access to technology, staff and financial resources as they are often the primary source of health care in their communities.

That’s why the AHA is collaborating with multiple parties across the public and private sectors to support our rural members with cybersecurity risk mitigation.

For more cybersecurity resources, learn about cybersecurity resources from Microsoft and Google to assist rural hospitals, and please visit AHA’s dedicated page to support the HHS Cybersecurity Performance Goals.

Highlights

Start with Defense: Building a Cyber-Ready Team with Microsoft

In this Advancing Health podcast, cyber security experts from the AHA and Microsoft discuss the urgent need to build a cyber-strong workforce, particularly in rural hospital and health systems, and how methods such as re-skilling can sustain permanent cyber readiness.

Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Program for Rural Hospitals

In this video, AHA’s National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk John Riggi interviews Laura Kreofsky, program lead for Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Program for Rural Hospitals, about why Microsoft worked collaboratively with the White House and the AHA to create the program, and how the program helps rural hospitals understand, prepare for and respond to cyber risks. The program offers a cybersecurity assessment, staff training and affordable security software.